Vice President & Digital Product Manager - Business Banking Lending

Vice President & Digital Product Manager - Business Banking Lending

Dubai, UAE Posted 3 days ago Expires in 2 months Ref: JB5207777

• Develop and deliver a vision for SME Lending digital products, ensuring alignment with the Bank’s strategy and a user-focused design.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to include business requirements in the product roadmap and lead a high-performing team to manage various digital lending products.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for the delivery of the roadmap for SME Lending related digital products, work closely with the relevant proxy product owners.
• Ensure alignment to the Digital Product and wider Bank strategy, with a clear user focused service design approach.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across the Business including Credit, Branches, Financial Product and the Control functions to understand business requirements and priorities.
• Build and lead a high performing team of Digital Product Owners who oversee proactive, customer focused multi-disciplinary teams.
• Lead technical squad and business product for Digital advanced Instalment Loans, Invoice Lending, BNPL, Credit Line, Merchant Loans, Micro Credit, Micro Savings, Fixed Deposits products.
• Develop Digital Strategic Partnerships with external third parties, trade license authorities, free zones, and government entities.
• Cultivate a culture of inclusivity and collaboration where the expertise and insights of specialists in user research, journey mapping, and UX design are valued and respected.
• This approach ensures the development of highly effective digital products through a comprehensive process of research, ideation, and design.

Skills

What You Should Have

• Established track record as a Product Owner or in a comparable role, with a focus on back-end/front-end engineering and software solutions within the banking and finance sector.
• Proficiency in agile development methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Familiarity with AI, block chain and machine learning concepts, data analytics, and cloud-based technologies.

What We Are Looking For

• Minimum 10 years of cumulative experience, including digital product development and management of a single or multiple Agile squads.
• Bachelor's degree as a prerequisite, with an advanced degree considered advantageous.